It's about time Americans started dying in the Occupied Territories. Ironic that this latter-day Hanoi Jane should have been extruded by a Caterpillar bulldozer: US vehicle, US-funded war machine, US-endorsed (or at the very least tolerated) 'targeted killings'. Why not move the whole shebang to the plains and mesa of New Mexico; it'll save on the weapons' transport costs and the journalists won't have as far to travel. And it will all be in the right timezone for the 6 o'clock news.
Of course, they'll probably say she was a "good kid who fell in with a bad crowd", like Lindh. Which would probably be even more insulting to her beliefs than calling her an anti-American traitor. (Sometimes treason is a badge of honour.) Still, having white skin can do that to you.
Future rumour on the streets: wearing Caterpillar-brand shoes signifies support for the Israeli military, much like wearing Doc Martens with white laces signifies that one is a white-supremacist skinhead and red laces signify that one's a socialist.
Whereas wearing a Cat(erpillar) cap just makes you an inbred redneck hick.
Emails home from Comrade Rachel to her family:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,916246,00.html
Mind you, given that it's the Guardian, they could well have edited out the bits about killing Israelis.
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Tue Mar 18 06:04:30 2003
It appears that she died in combat as a guerilla alongside Palestinian militants. As such, from Israel's POV, she'd definitely be an enemy combatant. Whether she'd be seen as a traitor to the US depends on whether the US is at war against the Intifada. And her anarchist/Marxist ideology would have put her somewhat further away from Osama Bin Laden than Wahhabi fundamentalist Lindh was.